CEMA Projects and More

Asian American Oral History Project

CEMA is involved in a project to document the history of the Santa Barbara Royal Presidio neighborhood. Partners in this project include the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation and the UCSB Asian American Studies Department. Several teams have been conducting a series of oral histories of long-time elderly local Asian American residents of the Presidio neighborhood in downtown Santa Barbara.

In connection with this project, CEMA created an undergraduate research internship in conjunction with the Oral History Program of the Department of Special Collections. The internship trains Asian American undergraduate students to conduct and transcribe oral history interviews, while CEMA also endeavors to collect and preserve the historical artifacts, documents, and photographs associated with the interviews.

Cal Cultures

CEMA is one of the special contributors to the Calispheres California Cultures website which documents California's rich history of diversity and multicultural contributions.

ImaginArte

IInterpreting and Re-imaging Chican@Art

ImaginArte is the name chosen for an exciting new interdisciplinary humanities project that will draw on CEMA collections to foment new research, scholarship, exhibitions and publications. Its overall goal is to support new scholarship, research, exhibitions, publications, and greater online access to the visual legacy of the Chicano movement.

Student Handouts

This is a handout that is helpful to students doing Chicano studies research using primary Sources.

Essays and Publications

Archives and Manuscripts: Historical Antecedents to Contemporary Chicano Collections by Salvador Guerena

Los Cielos / The Heavens - Three critical essays written by: Sybil Venegas, art historian, writer and educator at East Los Angeles College; Armando Duron, major supporter and collector of Chicano art of Los Angeles; Reina Prado, cultural activist, educator, and curator in Tucson, Los Angeles and San Francisco

JUST ANOTHER POSTER?
"JUST ANOTHER POSTER? - Chicano Graphic Arts in California, is the first exhibition and book that explores the poster art created by dozens of Chicano artists in California from the late 1960s to the present."
Article written by Mark Vallen - a participating artist in the exhibition.

Related Links

• Asian American Studies Department, UCSB
  
• Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
• Black Studies Department, UCSB
  
• Chicano/Latino Net
• Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCSB
• Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota
• The Amistad Research Center (African American Studies) at Tulane University
• Indiana University Archives of African American Music and Culture
• Japanese American National Museum (JANM)
• Japanese American History Archives
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Copyright and Fair Use
• The African American Museum and Library at Oakland

Cema is an institutional affiliate of A Ver. Click here for more information on the project